An Educational Intervention Decreases Opioid Prescribing after General Surgical Operations

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 468-472

  Hill, Maureen V ^a   Stucke, Ryland S ^a   McMahon, Michelle L ^b   Beeman, Julia L ^a   Barth, Richard J ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

education; narcotic prescription; opioid; postoperative pain control; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PARACETAMOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PILL; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDUCATION; HERNIORRHAPHY; IN SERVICE TRAINING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGEON;

ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGEONS;

EID: 85014553976     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002198     Document Type: Article

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